Title

London Main-Drainage Works: section of the outfall of the Northern Drainage at Barking Creek, 1864. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

London Main-Drainage Works: section of the outfall of the Northern Drainage at Barking Creek, 1864. Diagram showing the outlet to the river: 'Side entrance; ventilator; river wall; Trinity high water...The sewage lifted [at Pimlico] will be conveyed through the low-level sewer, which is to pass along the Thames embankment, now in course of construction, and along the intended new street to the Mansion House as far as Cannon-street; and thence in an easterly course past the Tower and the neighbourhood of the London Docks and Limehouse to the larger pumping establishment at Abbey Mills. This sewer will collect, in its course, in addition to the water from the western districts, the sewage from Westminster, the City, Mile-end, Shadwell, Stepney, Bow, Limehouse, Poplar, Bromley, and Blackwall; the whole of which - amounting in all to 15,000 cubic feet per minute - will be lifted a height of 36 ft. into the outfall sewer, already constructed, and conveyed through it to Barking Creek'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

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Keywords

river water arts engineering art tide British geography color sewer Victorian century Britain diagram newspapers press print civil engineering drainage natural phenomena B&W engraved engraving sewers water supply sanitation Colour high tide 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century pumping station The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News sewer system ILN Metropolitan Board of Works newspaper outfall Unknown Joseph William Bazalgette Bazalgette Joseph Bazalgette Sir Joseph Bazalgette sewage system Sir Joseph William water level 19th-century Barking Creek